. At the age of sixteen her father learned of her reluctance to accept her heritage, and placed into motion a radical plan. Instead of sending her to dance camp in Aspen, he sent her to Mexico. Reluctantly, she did as her father asked and found that he was right. She loved everything about Mexican culture, and returned to the States with a newly found apparition for her Latino roots.
Bharati, the speaker in the story has her citizenship and her sister Mira, only has her green card. The author Bharati and Mira are two sisters from Calcutta, India. Mukherjee’s story “Two ways to belong in America” compares and contrast paradigms on Mira and Bharati who were raised in the same house but developed different views on immigration. Bharati’s is the one who easily adapts to the American culture and becomes Americanize. She feels the need of being part of a community.
But what I saw was just horrifying. When I opened the front door, I saw Brian wearing some kind of odd costume. At first it didn’t occur to me what exact costume it was. But when Maggie came running towards me, I instantly noticed this pixie cap which was classic for a KKK outfit.” On Sheeree’s trip to California, Brian had used the occasion to bring Maggie to a KKK-rally. Brian had had, to keep his hatred for black men to himself as being racist no longer was accepted.
According to Tocqueville, a lot can be done to the nation, if those individuals listen to their conscience and stop living in their own circle like a hermit. Society will not change unless those people make a move and change their way of thinking. Margaret Fuller said "when inward and outward freedom for woman as much as for man shall be acknowledged as a right, not yielded as a concession." This means that equality between men and women should be considered as something normal and moral. And here again, we see that if people listen to their conscience, and not to what society want them to believe is good, there will be some beneficial changes.
PD lives with his wife and daughter. He made his money off an article that was what the whites wanted to hear and became broke after changing it to a fair and honest article. PD is writing his autobiography called The Magnolia Jungle. PD brings him back to New Orleans and on the way they stop at Dillard University, a black college, and tell Dean Sam Gandy about his experiment. Then, he takes a bus to Biloxi where he saw beautiful white only beaches.
This essay Two Ways to Belong in America was written by Bharati Mukherjee is based on her personal experience adapting to the American society and government. This story illustrates the journey of her and her sister Mira's differences in values once they made their way into America and their struggles of being labeled as immigrants. The story is told from Bharati's point of view and she explains how she and her sister shared similarities both in appearance and religious values. The two sisters take differing sides on the status of immigrants in the United States. Having lived in the United States for about 35 years, Bharati is an American citizen while her sister is not.
Roussante Kitson Prof. Minati Roychoudhuri English G102 17 Feb 2014 Two Ways to Belong In America “In one family, from two sisters alike as peas in a pod, there could not be a wider divergence of immigrant experience”. As I converse about how both girls growing up with similar childhood and other background. Both Mira and Bharati, two sisters from Calcutta, who lived in the United States for thirty-five years, but then fines themselves on different side in the current debate over the status of immigrants. Bharati talks about how she is moved that thousands of long-term residents are finally taking the oath of citizenship. Mira is not.
She now bares the weight of her mother’s misfortune and ill-doing. Those strong puritan influences, civil obedience and harsh consequences molded her into the very woman she is today. Thirteen years have passed since the Scarlet Letter and Pearl lives happily ever after. The Scarlet Letter scenario should be a draining factor to Pearl, having to relive her mother’s pain and her inadequate childhood. She may feel as if her birth was a curse to her mother, and that it’s all her fault she lived with such disgrace.
Red Summer The Summer of 1919 and The Awakening of Black America Mackenzie Zeiler History 1221 Professor Mary Ludwig March 9, 2014 The year 1919 was a violent and tragic time for Americans. WWI was ending, and many soldiers were coming home. Some of these soldiers were black men who fought for their country and these men came home expecting that they had earned a place in society and were hoping for change. They believed that with the reconstruction era coming to an end and slavery being outlawed, they would have the equal rights that they were promised. The cause of so much violence during this time was the fact that whites felt that things should return to the way they were before the war.
The idea of legal paternalism in ethical reasoning is somewhat of a kind gesture from the Government to try to help individuals from themselves in the assumption that those individuals do not know what is best for them. But, forcing individuals to paternalistic laws in order to protect them is limiting their natural born rights and is unconstitutional. The Government must respect people's choices because respecting individuals choices manifest a respect for them as liberated individuals protected by the constitution of the United States. Government should not interfere with people's personal lives; because